Journals

To relegate academic projects that seek to untangle the complexities of human systems to the realm of grievances is a farce—one that misses the point of the academic project in the first place.

• By Jared Keller

An expansive new project is able to replicate results from fewer than half of its psychology experiments in question.

• By Nathan Collins

Academic publishing has been slow to make use of social media, but new experiments could push the industry—and science—forward.

• By Michael White

New guidelines proposed by the National Institutes of Health have already been rejected by several major scientific journals.

• By Michael White

Here's how to fix it.

• By Michael White

In a field where success and true impact are often unquantifiable until years later, there's much debate over how to measure the quality of one's work.

• By Michael White

The use of journal rankings to rate individual papers, scientists, and even programs has upset loads of people in academia. One paper's solution: Get rid of journals.

• By Michael Todd

A lot of science's ills have been traced to the way it gets published. What if researchers laid out their dirty laundry before even donning a lab coat?

• By Michael Todd

A look at the Journal of Visualized Experiments, the first journal devoted to publishing scientific research in a video format.

• By Michael Todd

A new report, though focused specifically on medical journals, reminds us to maintain a healthy level of skepticism when interpreting any study's findings.

• By Genevra Pittman